October 27, 2011 / Front Page

Many ask questions but 19-year-old insists he was trapped in hole for 4 days

By Jim Cox Editor & Publisher

Clarke County Sheriff Ray Norris said he believes Wesley Weaver’s story that he was trapped in a hole for four days and considers any doubts about Weaver’s whereabouts closed. Concerns over the missing raccoon hunter turned to doubt More...

The Clarke County Development Foundation is promoting the formation of a countywide healthcare or hospital authority to look into healthcare needs for the county and the possibility of a regional hospital. The move was prompted by the recent c More...

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A Jackson man was arrested and charged with three felony drug counts Tuesday afternoon by the Drug Task Force. Ladarius Tremayne Jackson, known also as Booman, was arrested and charged with two counts of distribution of a controlled substance a More...

October has been a quiet time for birds in our yard. Elsewhere, quite a lot has been happening. The fall songbird migration in Alabama, which passes east of us, was recorded through banding sessions at the Fort Morgan State Park Oct. 8-20. More...

Wesley Weaver, the 19-year-old coon hunter who was trapped in a hole in a wooded area off Good Hope Road near Jackson for four days, says he is still a little fatigued and confused from the ordeal. Weaver and his family called a press conferenc More...

The defense attorney representing a man charged with murder suggested in opening remarks Tuesday that the victim may have been practicing voodoo and other “strange acts” that terrorized the people of the Fool’s Acre Road area of Man More...

George William McHaney, 81, of Saraland died Oct. 27, 2011 at Lynwood Health Care Facility. He was born April 13, 1930 in Selma. He was a member of Saraland Baptist Church. He was a retired paper mill receiving clerk. More...

James Clyde (Jim) Wilson, 71, died Oct. 24, 2011 at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Birmingham. He was born Sept. 18, 1940 in Winn in Clarke County. His untimely death following complications from surgery on Sept. More...

The Leroy Bears completed their region slate with a 42-14 win over county foe Millry last Friday night on Wildcat Hill. The win secures the top seed and the sixth straight region title for the north Washington County Bruins. More...

The Sweet Water Bulldogs, playing on the road in McIntosh, accumulated a total of 451 yards of offense while holding the home standing McIntosh Demons to a total of only 60 yards in their 56 – 8 rout of their hosts this past Friday, October 21. More...

A four-day search that drew hundreds of volunteers from Clarke County, Southwest Alabama and beyond ended well Sunday when a missing 19-yearold coon hunter was found. Wesley Weaver had been missing from Thursday through Sunday in a wooded and r More...